You know, I keep calling for the disbanding of the UN, and you guys always call me crazy...

I don't. Since the UN was founded, it has done.... pretty much nothing. Either it needs huge reform with unilateral cooperation by ALL countries, or it just needs to go (which is the more likely of the 2 scenarios).

Especially in this regard. The internet is often times the only source for people to garner the actual truth about what is happening in their region and what they can do to change it. Making the internet a global exchange commodity filtered by people who aren't even elected officials is propaganda in its purest form, regardless of where you live.

We need an organization that get countries to communicate with each other on neutral ground in order to keep the world semi-peaceful. Just having countries communicate with themselves in private will just lead to ideological disputes and accusations of ideological bias. With neutral parties being a part of the debate they can give insightful opinions, ideas and non-war threats (or whatever it's called) which can influence the outcome of the conflict. The UN might not stop all wars, but at least they can help to find a common ground.

Now, no doubt about that some stuff about the UN is stupid - like major powers having more votes and the ability to veto which other smaller countries can't, and ideas like these that the UN shouldn't be a part of to begin with.

The U.N. needs to be disbanded and reformed as something better. I see very little value or relevancy in it at the this point, especially when they do stuff like pass international blasphemy laws and attempt to deal with fascist dictators slaughtering their own people by sheepishly asking them to stop or simply ignoring them altogether in the case of Rhodesia.

Wasn't the internet created by physicists during the Cold War as a weapon of war and then given to the general public for free?

15 years ago, it might have been possible for them to take control of the internet, but considering the impact it has on people's lives nowadays... yeah, good luck with that. You'd have an easier time taking control of our firearms. http://www.readenews.com

I feel bad about bashing the UN, because I know it's predecessors failure, the League of Nations indirectly lead to World War II. On the other hand it's often so incompetent I feel I can leave it's failings to speak for themselves.